Victorino de la Plaza

Victorino de la Plaza (2 November 1840-2 October 1919) was President of Argentina from 10 August 1914 to 11 October 1916, succeeding Roque Saenz Pena and preceding Hipolito Yrigoyen. He was the last National Autonomist Party leader to serve as President, as Saenz Pena's introduction of compulsory and universal voting for all men over the age of 18 ended the conservative oligarchy's hold on politics and led to the rise of the Radical Civic Union.

Biography
Victorino de la Plaza was born in Salta, Argentina on 2 November 1840, and he became a lawyer in 1868 and served as Treasurer under President Nicolas Avellaneda in 1876, Foreign Minister in 1882, Treasurer from 1883 to 1885, and Vice President from 1910 to 1914. Upon the death of Roque Saenz Pena in 1914, De la Plaza assumed the presidency, completing his term and leaving office in 1916. He died of pneumonia three years later.